Page 24 of Never Say Never

My stomach is a jittery mess of nerves. I want this so fucking bad, I can taste it. I want Daisy Carter. I want her all to myself. I want her to belong to me. I think I always have.

Her ice blue eyes meet mine again as she blows out a breath.

“Okay.”

One word. One simple word, and my body erupts in chills. I search her gaze for any indication that just she’s messing with me, but her blue eyes are clear and confident. “Okay?”

“I said okay, Tuck. Friends with benefits until I leave and then it’s over.”

My body relaxes as the air that was trapped in my lungs releases in one long exhale.Fuck me.I will finally have what I have always wanted. Daisy.

“But I have rules,” she says firmly.

“Tell me.”

“No flirting”

“Gotcha.”

“No cuddling.”

“Got it.”

“No sleepovers.”

“Done.”

“No dates. No beach walks. No dinners, coffees, desserts…”

“Dais,” I say, laughing now. “We have been best friends since the day we were born. I think we can handle getting a cup of coffee together.”

“No. Those are my rules. Take them or leave them.”

“Fine. It’s a deal. Now it’s my turn.”

“Your turn to do what?”

“To tell youmyrule.”

She rolls her eyes but smiles at me. “Why do you get a rule? This whole thing was your idea.”

“Exactly. My idea, so I get a rule too,” I say with a smirk. “No falling in love with me, Dais.”

She immediately looks exasperated—it’s an expression that I have grown very familiar with—but then her face softens, and a smile tips her lips. “Fat chance, Collins. That will never happen.”

“Never say never.”

The pink blush of Daisy’s cheeks brightens. She clears her throat, then reaches over to grab her travel book from my hands. “Okay, we should get going, we’re already late,” she says nervously, just as her hand accidentally grazes my fucking dick.

I bite the inside of my cheek at the feeling of Daisy’s hand over the ridge of my cock, which has been half hard ever since it thought there was even a slight chance it could get inside Daisy.

“I’m so sorry,” Daisy stammers, trying to grab hold of the book a second time only to graze my dick again. Her eyes widen. “Oh my god, I didn’t—”

Before I have a full-blown erection, I grab the book from her now shaking hands and set it on the coffee table.

I clench my jaw and count backwards from 10 and when that doesn’t work, I imagine filing my tax return, dead kittens, a chainsaw to my nether region, trying to ease the bulge in my pants.

“Honestly, I didn’t mean to—" Daisy’s face is the shade of a tomato as she shakes her head, her bottom lip trapped under her teeth. She looks so fucking cute, which is doing nothing to help the situation in my briefs. This girl only needs to breathe, apparently, and I turn into a horny teenager who can’t control his dick. “I… am so sorry. We should probably get to your parents’ place.”

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